Volodymyr Kubiyovych, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Volodymyr Kubiyovych

Ukrainian geographer

Date of Birth: 23-Sep-1900

Place of Birth: Nowy Sącz, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 02-Nov-1985

Profession: politician, historian, public figure, geographer, university teacher, publisher, encyclopedist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Volodymyr Mykhailovych Kubiyovych, also spelled Kubiiovych or Kubijovyc (Ukrainian: ??????´??? ????´?????? ??????´???; 23 September 1900, Nowy Sacz, Austrian Galicia – 2 November 1985, Paris, France) was a Ukrainian geographer with a specialty in demography, a cartographer, an encyclopedist, politician, and statesman.
Of mixed Ukrainian and Polish ethnic background, he was an important intellectual supporting the Ukrainian national movement in inter-war Poland, and his scholarly works from this period dealt with the Ukrainian ethnic presence in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Romania, and with the geographical boundaries of ethnographic Ukraine. During World War II he headed the Cracow-based Ukrainian Central Committee which organized social and charitable work among Ukrainians in occupied Poland.
Kubiyovych became a main proponent of the cooperation between certain Ukrainian Nationalist organizations and Nazi Germany with the ultimate goal of achieving an independent Ukrainian national state.
After the war, he retired from political work but became one of the leading scholars of the Ukrainian diaspora in the West.
After 1945, and throughout the Cold War, Kubiyovych remained a target of vociferous criticism by the Soviet authorities, focusing on some of his wartime activities, in particular his sponsoring of the Ukrainian division of Waffen-SS.